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Chinese protest against chemical plant in south More than two thousand people have held a rally protesting against a planned chemical plant in southern China. It is the second demonstration this month… 16/05/2013
New air for museums The precious relics on show in our museums provide us with a unique connection to the past which might otherwise be lost. But these remains are fragile… 13/05/2013
Protests in Shanghai against pollution Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Shanghai to protest against plans to open a lithium battery factory in the city. There is growing social tension… 11/05/2013
Jeremy Irons ‘trashes’ plastic waste in Brussels Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons has backed an EU move to reduce the amount of plastic waste in Europe. Trashed, a new documentary produced by Irons, looks… 07/03/2013
‘Airpocalypse’ smog in China – nocomment Beijing has been enveloped by thick smog and a sandstorm. Among the places covered with dust was Tiananmen Square, where the National People’s Congress (NPC)… 01/03/2013
Chinese pandas drowned in pollutionPanda statues are seen in front of buildings on a hazy day in Beijing, February 28, 2013. Beijing’s environmental authorities said on Thursday air quality in… 28/02/2013
China on red alert over pollution A 40-car pile-up on a Chinese motorway, caused in part by bad visibility in the smog pointed to growing political strain. It was one of the consequences of… 31/01/2013
Chinese multimillionaire brings fresh air to Beijing – nocomment Chen Guangbiao,an eccentric Chinese multimillionaire’s latest venture may not be the cure for Beijing’s ongoing air pollution problem, but it’s bringing smiles to the faces of some of the city’s choking residents. Chen and his colleagues took to the streets to give away hundreds of cans of fresh air, purportedly collected from far-flung and pristine regions of China. 31/01/2013
Follow the Innovation Road The latest environmental technologies came under the spotlight at the Pollutec exhibition in France. A special section called Innovation Road was devoted to… 04/12/2012
Fracking in Europe Wojciech Swieton has travelled all over the world as a drilling engineer. He started his search for natural gas in his native Poland, then moved to… 02/11/2012
Bonus interview: Piotr Grzegorz Wozniak, junior minister for shale gas at the Environment Ministry of Poland Complete interview in English with junior minister for shale gas at the Environment Ministry of Poland, Piotr Grzegorz Wozniak. 02/11/2012
Bonus interview: Jakub Gogolewski, coordinator for CEE Bankwatch Network Poland Complete interview in English with coordinator for CEE Bankwatch Network Poland, Jakub Gogolewski. 02/11/2012
Bonus interview: Pawel Poprawa, Energy Studies Institute Pawel Poprawa works for the Warsaw-based Energy Studies Institute and lobbies in favour of shale gas exploration in Poland 02/11/2012
Merkel visit marks major Airbus order Beijing is buying 50 Airbus A 320 planes and will assemble more aircraft in China by extending an assembly line at Tianjin near the capital. The deals were… 30/08/2012
Eco-crime in EU booming, report says Mafia groups are making billions from environmental crime, new research has found. Dumping toxic waste, illegal logging and trafficking of endangered species… 12/07/2012
Diesel danger: fumes cause cancer – WHO Exhaust emissions could become a public health issue on the same scale as passive smoking after the World Health Organization said diesel fumes do cause… 14/06/2012
Swimming in polluted waterA man swims in the polluted waters of a pond next to his buffalo on World Environment Day on the outskirts of Jammu. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta 07/06/2012
Cannes: Polluting Paradise Award-winning Turkish-German director Fatih Akin has brought his latest film Müll Im Garten Eden or Polluting Paradise to Cannes. It is centred on the Black… 22/05/2012
MEPs told to change plastic bottle habit The art of politics has never been easy, but in Brussels it seems to be very thirsty work. That is because last year the European Parliament used over a… 10/05/2012
Air cleaning for the Olympics With less than 100 days to go before the Olympics kick off in London, pollution is a major preoccupation. Transport for London uses a system for monitoring… 03/05/2012
Breathtaking art under threat from exhalation The magnificent frescoes housed in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City are under threat from the very visitors who flock to see the work of Michelangelo and… 16/04/2012
Ti my shoes This tannery in Silla, Spain, has made its leather production greener and safer with a new technology developed as part of an EU-funded research… 03/02/2012
Volunteers clear rubbish along Algiers beachThis operation to clean up Tamenfoust beach, 20 km east of Algiers, was launched through Facebook. Volunteers were recruited to remove heaps of rubbish that… 21/01/2012
Beijing’s air pollution getting worse – nocomment There has been a public outcry over the methods authorities use to measure air quality in Beijing and residents say official figures understate the severity… 11/01/2012
Grey skies for China’s property marketLabourers demolish a residential site in Shanghai. Investment in China’s real estate slowed last month, and sales revenue fell for the second consecutive… 12/12/2011
Towards a complete nuclear test ban Forty years of Soviet nuclear testing turned a large area in Kazakhstan into a radioactive wasteland. Today it is at the heart of a nuclear weapon-free zone… 17/10/2011
Containers leaning dangerously over the oceanThe 47,230 tonne Liberian-flagged Rena lists, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island October 15, 2011… 17/10/2011
Major oil spill threatens Mumbai coastline – nocomment The authorities in Mumbai, India, are struggling to contain a 13 kilometre-long oil slick that has escaped from cargo ship that went down off the coast in a… 09/08/2011
When too much green is not green at all Another summer’s day, another huge tide of green algae along the coast of Brittany in north western France. It is a complex environmental problem that has… 21/07/2011
Anti-pollution fashion a breath of fresh air Science and fashion have come together in the UK, and the resulting clothes are a breath of fresh air. Scientists have come up with a way of making clothes… 21/07/2011
EU Presidency – Poland’s dilemma Poland is promising an injection of optimism into its forthcoming presidency of the EU but that could easier said than done. Internal politics could… 30/06/2011
Poland’s environmental stance attacked Poland’s position on the environment is drawing criticism from othe EU members. José Bové is a French Green MEP and Chairman of the European Parliament’s… 30/06/2011
Naples: Residents set fire to rubbish – nocomment Residents of Naples set fire to rubbish overnight in protest at the government’s failure to clear a backlog of malodorous waste from the streets. Firefighters… 25/06/2011
Naples rubbish crisis continues – nocomment People in Naples have vented their anger at the city’s ongoing rubbish crisis by blocking the streets with refuse. There are an estimated 2,400 tonnes of… 23/06/2011
Rubbish crisis in NaplesRubbish is seen in the famous “Toledo” road after a protest in downtown Naples, Italy. REUTERS / Ciro Messere 22/06/2011
Streets of Naples are full of rubbish – nocomment Protesters set trash alight during the night in Naples, Italy. They overturned street bins and blocked traffic in Naples as the city’s rubbish crisis flared… 22/06/2011
Europe’s bathing water quality still high despite slight drop in standards The excellence of Europe’s bathing waters sunk slightly between 2009 and 2010, even if overall quality remained high. Mediterranean countries topped the clean… 16/06/2011
Trucks to pay more to use EU roads New EU rules to allow governments to charge trucks for air and noise pollution have received final backing from the European Parliament. They are expected to… 08/06/2011
Paving the way to cleaner air Too many cars in our city centres can make for a pretty unpleasant atmosphere. Toxic nitrogen levels often exceed the maximum permitted limits in several… 23/05/2011
Oil platform sinks in US GulfThe semi-submersible residential platform Jupiter from Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex is seen almost submerged in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of… 13/04/2011
Eco-technology fair features surprising devices Thousands of new products from nearly 50 countries were on show at the Pollutec fair for environment technology in the French city of Lyon this year. Among… 07/12/2010
Red mud, blue Danube A red desert landscape has enveloped entire villages in Hungary, in the wake of the toxic sludge disaster. The people living along the Danube River wonder… 22/10/2010
E-recycling: when electronic gadgets die Condensers, capacitors and cables – just some of the electronic components that are thrown away each year as 21st century gadgets become last year’s… 19/10/2010
Guardians of the oceans Human activity is challenging our oceans´ ecosystems. Overfishing, pollution, coastal degradation and other threats are putting thousands of marine species… 04/06/2010
Terra Viva: a future for the past Weathering the effects of salt erosion. Historical buildings are constantly exposed to a fast changing environment. Where once the main threat came from smoke… 19/05/2010
Toxic smog chokes India capitalForget Beijing, India’s largest city New Delhi is suffering far worse air pollution. The New York Times reports that a key measurement used to test air… 01/02/2013
China holds its breath as pollution perseveresAn area of almost 1.5 million square kilometres continues to be blanketed by smog in northern China. The hardest hit zones are the cities of Beijing and… 31/01/2013
Shell found ‘partially responsible’ for Niger Delta oil spillRoyal Dutch Shell has been ordered to pay unspecified damages to one farmer in Nigeria for loss of income. The ruling comes after a court at the Hague… 30/01/2013
Severe smog leaves China breathlessThere has been a sharp rise in cases of respiratory illness in China as the capital experiences a record level of dangerous air pollution. A toxic haze has… 15/01/2013
Emergency measures as Beijing gaspsOfficials in the Chinese capital Beijing have had to implement emergency measures for the first time to combat pollution which rose to the worst ever at the… 14/01/2013
Smog hits Athens as cash-strapped residents choose fire over fuelBad news for austerity-stricken Greeks is also proving to be bad news for the environment – specifically the air quality in Athens. Wood has soared in… 29/12/2012
Italian government passes legislation over ILVAThe Italian government is to pass legislation to force a clean-up of the ILVA steel plant and resolve a scandal threatening to shut it down. The plant, in the… 29/11/2012
Thousands of jobs at risk as Italy’s ILVA faces closureItalian steel producer ILVA faces closure, throwing thousands out of work after magistrates ordered the seizure of all steel produced from its main plant in… 27/11/2012
Chinese anti-chemical protests dispersedSeveral hundred Chinese police officers have dispersed more than a thousand demonstrators in the eastern city of Ningbo who had staged sometimes violent… 27/10/2012
Nuclear danger grows from dumped Soviet subsSoviet-era submarines dumped more than 30 years ago in the Arctic Ocean are threatening a major nuclear catastrophe, according to a report by a German… 26/09/2012
Victims’ lawyer praises French court decision on ErikaIt is being hailed as a “victory for environmental law” by the legal team that convinced France’s highest court to uphold the Erika conviction against Total… 26/09/2012
French court upholds Erika disaster guilty verdictFrance’s highest court has upheld the conviction of oil giant Total in the Erika disaster, which left Brittany’s beaches covered with oil, and polluted for a… 25/09/2012
French legal ruling may lead to maritime chaosThe Erika environmental disaster in 1999, when a Maltese-flagged tanker sank off the coast of Brittany, ruining 400 kilometres of pristine beaches, may be… 25/09/2012
Health versus jobs dilemma in southern ItalyTwo Italian government ministers have been meeting representatives of Europe’s largest steel factory which is threatened with closure and the loss of up to… 17/08/2012
Vietnam: US starts its first Agent Orange clean-upFor the first time, the United States is helping to clean up Agent Orange contamination – a toxic relic of the Vietnam war. The countries have launched a… 09/08/2012
‘Nothing done’ over Nigeria oil pollution, say localsTwelve months after the UN called for a huge clean-up of oil pollution in southern Nigeria, its Environment Programme says it is pleased the government has… 04/08/2012
Italy: Government backs steel plant clean-up plansItaly’s government has approved multi-million euro clean-up plans in and around a controversial steel plant whose partial closure has prompted… 04/08/2012
Prosecutors close Italy’s ‘pollution plant’It has been described as the most polluted town in Europe. Now local prosecutors have closed down much of the ILVA steel works in Taranto in southern Italy in… 26/07/2012
EU unveils new strategy to cut car emissionsThe European Commission has announced new plans to cut the amount of CO2 emitted by new cars and vans by 2020. The proposals are likely to mean a 1000 euro… 11/07/2012
Record high radiation levels at Fukushima power plantRadiation levels which would kill a person within 50 minutes have been detected inside the number one reactor at the Fukushima Power Plant. It is the highest… 28/06/2012
Protesters kick up stink over Rome waste dumpHundreds of people have demonstrated outside the Italian parliament building in Rome over plans for a new waste dump to the north of the capital. Those… 08/06/2012
Formaldehyde found in Japan water supplyWater supplies were cut to more than 300,000 homes in five cities near Tokyo after authorities found they were contaminated with a cancer-causing… 20/05/2012
Greenpeace test for pollution near Total gas leakPotential environmental hazards following the Total gas leak in the North Sea are being highlighted by Greenpeace, who have been testing air and water close… 02/04/2012
Operation to remove oil from cruise ship wreck beginsSalvage workers have finally begun pumping 2,300 tonnes of diesel from the wrecked cruise liner the Costa Concordia. Days of bad weather have until now… 13/02/2012
China bans airlines from joining EU carbon schemeChina has banned all airlines in the country from complying with an EU scheme that charges for carbon emissions from flights into and out of Europe… 06/02/2012
More delays to fuel pumping from cruise ship ConcordiaWork to pump fuel from the capsized cruise ship Concordia has once again been suspended due to bad weather conditions. The sea remains too rough for an… 29/01/2012
Dangerous chemical pollutes drinking water in ChinaEmergency workers in southern China are pouring sacks of neutralising powder into drains leading to the Liujiang River as they try to tackle a chemical spill… 29/01/2012
Pumping fuel from Costa Concordia called offThe operation to pump fuel from the Costa Concordia cruise ship due to begin today has been delayed due to rough seas. Technicians from Italian company Neri… 28/01/2012
Decision on Costa Concordia salvage operation imminentContinuing the search in tandem with the salvage operation on the Costa Concordia has not been ruled out. A scientific and technical committee is expected to… 22/01/2012
Fears of oil spill amid plans to pump cruise linerEmergency teams are battling to prevent the Costa Concordia from causing major pollution in one of the least spoilt parts of the Mediterranean. There are… 21/01/2012
Italy may declare cruise liner emergencyThe Italian government will declare a state of emergency in waters around Giglio Island if the stranded Costa Concordia starts leaking fuel. The vessel… 17/01/2012
Stern of stricken NZ ship sinking into the seaA stricken cargo ship off the east coast of North Zealand is sinking into the sea, authorities said on Tuesday. Rena is stranded on a reef some 22… 10/01/2012
NZ: residents warned off beach after broken ship spills its cargoAs goods from the Rena cargo ship wash onto New Zealand beaches, police have closed parts of the seashore to prevent people collecting the items. Sacks of… 09/01/2012
US oil company ordered to pay billions in compensation to EcuadorAn appeal court in Ecuador ruled that the US oil company Chevron should pay 18 billion dollars in damages after being accused of polluting the Amazon jungle… 04/01/2012
Coastal pollution fears after Nigeria oil spillThose living along Nigeria’s coastline said on Monday that officials are not doing enough to clean up last month’s deep sea oil spill. Thirteen coastal… 02/01/2012
Residents of Bosnian town trapped by air pollutionResidents of a central Bosnian town have been told to not to go outside because of a dangerously high level of air pollution. The sulphur dioxide in Zenica… 30/12/2011
Europe’s top court backs EU on airline carbon taxTransatlantic turbulence lies ahead, now that all airlines flying to and from the EU will be charged for their carbon emissions from January 1. The European… 21/12/2011
Polska a gaz łupkowyPolska posiada jedne z najwiekszych zlóż gazu łupkowego w Europie. Dlatego też Warszawa naciskała na Unię w celu wypracowania wspólnego stanowiska dla… 19/12/2011
Salvage of ‘Rena’ resumes in New Zealand’s Bay of PlentyWith the arrival of calmer weather, the pumping of oil has resumed from the stricken Rena container ship in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty. While there are… 13/10/2011
Cracks appear in ship stranded off New ZealandA stricken container ship stranded off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island is at risk of breaking up after cracks appeared in its hull. The… 12/10/2011
New Zealand oil slick is ‘worst ever’New Zealand authorities expect that pollution will get worse but say there seems to be no danger of a container ship breaking up as it sits stuck on a reef… 11/10/2011
Oil spill is NZ’s ‘worst maritime environmental disaster’An oil spill in New Zealand is now being described by the government as the country’s “worst ever maritime environmental disaster”. Officials have confirmed… 11/10/2011
Battle to save the Bay of PlentyAn oil spill is threatening one of the most pristine jewels in New Zealand’s crown of natural wonders, the Bay of Plenty. A Liberian-flagged container ship… 09/10/2011
Hungary’s worst disaster – warnings it could happen againThe one year anniversary of Hungary’s worst disaster approaches and the bulldozers are still at work as remnants of a thick red sludge remain embedded in the… 02/10/2011
BP to blame says US reportA US federal report has placed most of the blame for the worst offshore oil leak in the country’s history on the British company BP. The blowout at the… 15/09/2011
Toxic cloud causing health problems in RussiaAn alarming sight but ‘don’t panic’ is the message from Russian authorities as they battle to contain the effects of a toxic spill. The brown-yellow cloud… 02/09/2011
Shell says North Sea oil leak has clammed upThe oil company Shell has said a leak of crude in the North Sea has been reduced to a trickle with just two barrels per day escaping. A pipeline linking the… 16/08/2011
North Sea oil slick threatens birdsA ruptured pipeline owned by Shell could be the worst North sea oil leak in a decade. More than 1300 barrels have been spilt creating a 37 square Km slick off… 16/08/2011
Australia plans new carbon taxAustralia unveiled plans on Sunday to tax the carbon emissions of the nation’s worst pollutors. From next year, 500 companies will pay the equivalent of… 10/07/2011
Rubbish row rumbles on in trash strewn NaplesProtesters set fire to mounds of rubbish in the Italian city of Naples in protest at the authorities failure to clear the streets of tonnes of stinking… 25/06/2011
Italian Army clears rubbish in NaplesThe Italian Army has been brought in to clear tonnes of rubbish from the streets of Naples. It comes a week before the local elections. Prime Minister… 10/05/2011
Fracking: let’s think before we drillFracking is being hailed by its supporters as a clean solution to our energy needs. Its critics say it is just a chance to make big bucks at the expense of… 10/05/2011
EU faults Hungary’s deadly red mud classificationThe Hungarian authorities are being dragged through the mud again, being told they were wrong to classify industrial waste which in an accident in the north… 13/01/2011
